Check your entitlement

Expectations breed entitlement.

Like the entitlement of privileges that weren’t earned, or a free pass to abdicate responsibility because we’ve got it tough. Or entitlement to a homeland that belongs to someone else.

Conviction and sincerity are lost when we do things hoping for a good return.

We should do good because of who we are and what we choose to stand for. Not because we expect a return.

A return on investment is for business transactions, not for moral positions.

If you choose to fight for a cause, do it because it resonates with your values.

You honour your value system when you live by it, especially when it’s inconvenient or unpopular to do so.

When your values are used as a trading commodity with others, they’re not values, they’re tools for manipulation.

Accountability is a trigger for too many.

If you feel triggered when someone calls you to account, you have work to do on yourself.

Our triggers, frustrations, annoyances, anger, and emotional volatility is ours to own.

We cannot make others responsible for tiptoeing around it just because they ‘don’t know what we’ve been through’.

Their empathy or compassion towards us is a reflection of who they are, in the same way that ours is a reflection of who we are.

Outsourcing that or claiming that someone deserves not to receive it from us is an indulgence of our entitlement mentality, and not a defendable moral position.

Own your life. It always starts with you.

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